“We know our audience here is passionately PC- and console-focused,” Blizzard co-founder Allen Adham said speaking to Kotaku, clearly having not read 's thoughts on 'passion'.

The publishing giant revealed Diablo Immortal, a co-production between Blizzard and its Chinese publishing partner NetEase, on-stage at its annual Blizzcon and - predictably - the fans are not happy with this.Īs reported by Kotaku, one fan during a Q&A asked the developers whether this was an 'out-of-season April Fool's joke', while many gamers are expressing their fury on social media, likely due to the expectation that a brand new fully-fledged PC or console Diablo was on the way thanks to a pre-Blizzcon blog post announcing that multiple projects are in the works for the franchise.

What with the massive success of Hearthstone on mobile devices, we're as shocked as you are that Blizzard would bring another of its pillar IP to these platforms. No, I'm not talking about the UK-EU Brexit negotiations entering their final phase or the HBO box-set levels of drama coming out of the US mid-terms. Folks, something big happened at the weekend.

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